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Alex,<br>
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On 5/17/2012 8:22 PM, Alexander Eaton wrote:
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cite="mid:CAFmBdUDnpHZfAUawx4R70QdWwXPJ=FXVdJFbrJHKPvzKM5L0GQ@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Any data or thoughts on this? We are doing a really
cool zoo project, and we will be testing a number of animal
wastes, one being Elefant (hippo also included).
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Work has been done on this by researchers working at the Toronto,
Denver and Portland OR zoos, among others.<br>
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I know of at least three freely available papers that bear (pun
intended) on the issue (as previously):<br>
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<blockquote>“Energy Production from Zoo Animal Wastes”, Klasson
and Nghiem, 2003 (poster <a
href="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/eere/PDFs/Zoodoopost.pdf">here</a>,
paper <a
href="http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/123/1238059703.pdf">here</a>)<br>
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"Biogas from elephant dung: a means of mitigating human-elephant
conflict", Wijeyamohan (<a
href="http://www.asesg.org/PDFfiles/Gajah/22-62-Wijeyamohan.pdf">here</a>)<br>
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"Biogas as Renewable Energy from Organic Wastes", Karki et al (<a
href="http://www.eolss.net/Sample-Chapters/C17/E6-58-09-10.pdf">here</a>)<br>
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And another, hard to find on-line:<br>
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"Biogas Production from Elephant Dung at the National Elephant
Institute Project", by The National Elephant Institute
(Thailand)<br>
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<div style="font:Georgia" ;=""><span style="font-size:110%;">David
William House<br>
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<div style="padding-left:3em;font-size:80%;">"The Complete
Biogas Handbook" <code><a href="www.completebiogas.com">www.completebiogas.com</a></code><br>
<em>Vahid Biogas</em>, an alternative energy consultancy <code><a
href="www.vahidbiogas.com">www.vahidbiogas.com</a><br>
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